Universal winding machine



Nov. 27, 1923.

c. H. sMm-l ET Al.

UNIVERSAL WINDING MACHINE Filed Feb. 5, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet l 4 jai! l 2 "i, I

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MIM@ 1 Nov. 27, 1923. 1,475,655

C. H. SMITH ET AL UNIVERSAL WINDING MACHINE Filed Feb. 5, 1923 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 CHARLES E. SMITH, EAWTUCKET,

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EAMPSUN, GTE LNSDLLE, RHGBE SLAND.

UNVEB/S-.L iti/ENDING TEACHINE.

Apjilication 'filed February 5,

To all whom it muy con-cem.'

Be it known that we, @Hennes l'l. Snr-irri and ALFRED E. HAMrsoN, both citizens of the United States, residing, respectively, at Pawtucket and Lonsdale, in the county of Providence and State ot Rhode Island, have invented certain new an useful 1improvements in Universal llfindinn,r Machines, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to textile winding machines of the traverse bar type, and particularly to the means for controlling the strokes of the traverse bar and the traverse bar actuating member, which means is commonly known as. the traverse bar lever stop.

lt has heretofore been attempted to perorm the controlling function by means of a plate having projections integral therewith in the path of the traverse bar actuating member, but this proved susceptible to breakage.

An object of the present invention is to successfully cushion the strokes ot' the traverse bar and the tra-verse bar actuating member without fracture or breakage; and an other object is to quicken the initial impulse of the reverse motions of said member. Further objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent as it is better understood from the followingy description.

Our invention consists, therefore, in the means for producing' the results above referred to, substantially as hereinafter claimed.

ln the accompanying drawings which are a. part of this specification, and in which is shown merely preferred form ot embodiment of our invention,

Fgure l is a plan, omitting the dust shields, and partially broken away, oi the driving end of a textile universal winding machine embodying, our invention,

Figure 2. a section on line 2--2 of Figure l, looking in the direction of the arrows,

Figure 3, a section on the same line, looking in the direction opposite to the arrows,

Figure il, a plan of the traverse bar lever Stott.

Figure 5, a section ol the same on line 5 5 of Figure 4, and

Figure 6, a fragmentary view ot' a traverse bar lever hub and adjacent saddle.

Like reference characters indicate like parts throughout the views.

The invention will be described in conneed serial no.' eiaeis.

tion with the specilic embodiment shown, and it will be understood that the invention is not lo be limited by such specific showing except for such limitations as the claims iinpart.

ln the drawings l0 is the frame and ll, the gaincr case of a universal windingf machine. Herein also 13 is the main shaft in the frame driven by pulleys l5, and carrying a fear 17 meshing with a gear 18 on a stud 19 and fast to which is a pinion gear 20, engaging a gear 21 on a stud 22. It also carries a pinion gear 23 meshing with a. cam gear 24 on a stud 25. Fast to the gear 25 is a. channel cam 26, engaged by a cam stud 28 on a crank arm 30 on rock shaft 32. To the latter are fixed saddles 34, and longitudinally movable thereon are the hubs 35 of traverse bar` levers 36, one saddler and one hub only are herein shown. An end lug 37 on each hub. as shown in Figure 6, is normally held in a notch 38 in the adjacent saddle by a helical spring 39 engaging the hub with its inner end and abutting' with its outer end a shoulder el on the rock shaft. integral with the hub 35 is a lateral linger or lug l2 having a curved face 43 and inclined lateral faces 44, as shown in Figure 2. A connectingrod l? is pivotally attached at its ends to the lever 36 and to the traverse bar 4:9 mounted in the trame. and reciprocated by the shalt 32 actua-ted by the del scribed. driving mechanism.

A, pair of oppositely disposed laterally projecting1 spindles 5i with. their intermeshing spindle gears 513 t are also herein shown mounted inv the trame; the gear 53 being driven through a gear 54 on shaft 13 in the usual manner.

Pivotally mounted in the frame trans! versely ot the rock shaft 82 are clutch levers 55 each comprising body or s ank portion 56 having; central offsetor bend 57 and a lateral clam arm 58, The .lait-ter is adapted to friotionallv engage a clutch 60 on an adjacent spindle 5l. and to control the same. The shank is pivoted one end by a stud 64 in the frame and has 'fixed to its other end a starting' lever 66 ournaled in the trame by which the clutch lever maj-,f be manually tilted.

The offset 57 in each clutch lever 55 forms a recess 69 within which the finger 42 oscillates, as shown in Figure 3. Bridging the recess is a plate 70 fastened by screws 72 to eseh end of e materiel of 80, and nut 8l. The nel sind boltr shut tight-.ly Athe outer Jehe ears.

Flat oblonga gale-d sles Se near their upper ends through which loosely pees the nienfiher 7"?. The upper ends of -hese lingers are tight-ly pressed against ithe ears 7F by s. helical spring 86 snrrennding ihe member 7T with. iis ends shutting sgainis the inner tiene@ of *l gers. ln this ease the springa i its extremities in elonx f ii Coils 88. The iria 83 depend plane of the pla-te ZO through the Cei/'ity 74 and recess e9 to positions si. each side oi: lJehe lng d2 so neer i1-he letter es 'to be 1in the path of its movement in hoi'h dire-tions As each lug fece le slfrilres iis adjacent finger 83 the lower end of Hthe hunter slightly moves outwardly and its upper end tilis slightly inwardly, as permitied h v ihe slons 84;, sloring' up energy in. the sp ring 86, which reeeis ait the end of the stroke of Jehe ing lo initially aeeelerae its return, es Well es serve as a Cushion. The deserihed eonsirii@tion` .isnorf snhjeot- Kto freetnre or breakage through use.

We claime- 1. In i universal winding indemne, the

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combination ivigh `the rooleshat, and traverse ber lever, of s lug on the lever, ey Clutch lever provided with en offset adapted to receive the lug, ears supported on the clutch lever, loer in the ears, and depending finon the rod at the side of j@he lug.

2. ln a. universe-l winding machine, Jdie combination with `the roeieshaft, the treverse loer lever fast thereco and Ineens for actuating the shaft, of a lug on he lever, a elnieh lever adjacent `the shaft end disposed transversely thereto, ears supported on the eluteli. lever, i. har on the eers, and ingers yieldigly morini-ed on the rod in the perth of the lug.

3.' in a. universal Winding machine, a clutch lever, e plete on `the lever, ears on the plaie, a` rod in the ears, depending fingers provided with openings near Jtheir. ends adapted to loosely receive @he rod, and a. spring on ehe rod pressingr the fingers against the ears.

4. in a. universel Winding Ina-chine, aeliit-eh lever provided with an ol'sei., `a` plete fast to the lever bridging the offset and provided With a` cavity, ears on the plate at eneh end of the cavity, a. rod in 4the ears, lingers on fthe rod abutting against the ears and depending through the Cavity, and a' helieal spring on the rod engaging the fingers.

In testimony whereof We have eixed our si gnaytures.

i CHARLES H. SMITH.Y

ALFRED E. HAMPSON. 

